Lost in the utter torpidity of this stock market is just how unrelenting the advance has been. There are all the record highs, of course, but that’s doesn’t quite capture it. Because, of course, when stocks are already trading up at record highs, they don’t really have to go too far to hit new record highs. In other words, it makes for good headline hyperbole, but its rather thin soup.

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